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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Croatia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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